Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mick wrote:
> On Friday 07 Oct 2011 08:25:36 Dale wrote:
>> Michael Mol wrote:
>>> On one hand, you can configure the locations of things like
>>> %PROGRAMFILES% and %SYSTEMROOT%. On the other hand, you can mount a
>>> volume wherever you like.
>>>
>>> I used this to use the same .libpurple directory on a machine
>>> dual-booted between WinXP 32-bit and WinVista 64-bit. A data volume
>>> was mounted at D:\Data, and I had NTFS junctions pointing my
>>> .libpurple on both boots at a directory on that volume.
>> Hmmmm, this is interesting.  My brother has filled up his hard drive and
>> I been planning on reinstalling to a larger drive.  Maybe I need to
>> check into this more.  He uses XP and I really hate to install windoze.
>> Since he had to spend $8,000.00 on a new mower, his new rig went to
>> second place in the budget.  This could be the place for the next couple
>> years.  Uhh, he mows grass for a living.  Anyway, putting Documents on
>> its own drive would save me some grief.
> You will get some space back if you move all the backup files created with
> MSWindows updates out of C:\ (but not the index which is needed to be able to
> update it properly).  If space is running out fast, then you may have a
> corrupt page file.  Delete it and move it to another drive/partition.
>
> Finally, clear all cruft in /temp directory (somewhere under local settings)
> for each user.
>
> If you have another drive, move all his data out of C:\  then defrag and
> shrink the partition a bit, create new partition(s) and install Linux!  ;-)

Well, I don't know much about windoze.  He currently has a 40Gb drive 
that only has about 2Gbs left.  I need to google for a howto or 
something.  I got a 80Gb drive that I wish I could scoot it over onto.

He does want Linux tho.  We were planning to build a new rig like mine 
but he had to buy a new mower.  He mows grass for a living and the new 
mower was over $8,000.00.  The new rig is on the back burner now.  He 
has a prebuilt rig right now, Gateway I think.  I would be scared to 
compile Gentoo on that stock heat sink.  It is a single core ~1.8Ghz 
with about 768Mbs of ram.  It is maxed out ram wise and the CPU won't 
take much improvement either.  It would take me days to install even if 
it had a nice heat sink on the CPU.  I was thinking Mandrake, bunto, 
slack or something.  I been using Gentoo so long, I don't even know what 
else is out there anymore.  lol

See the problem?  Some of it me.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)